Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Ministry Summary

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Department

Strategic Outcome

A safe and resilient Canada.

Program Activity Descriptions

Emergency Management

Emergency Management addresses all hazards (natural, technological and human-induced) through the development of an integrated emergency management system, legislation and national strategies, as well as training and standards which protect Canada and Canadians. This program activity aims to achieve effective policy and program coordination and delivery across the four pillars of emergency management: prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery through a close relationship with international counterparts, federal departments, provinces, territories, the first responder community and industry.

Law Enforcement

This program activity provides leadership to the Canadian law enforcement community on strategic national and international responses to crime and disorder by contributing to the development of appropriate law enforcement policies with a view to address evolving threats to maintain public order and security. In addition, on-reserve provincial policing services are enhanced through funding for dedicated on-reserve policing services.

Crime Prevention

The Crime Prevention program activity encompasses a wide range of funding activities designed to reduce the likelihood of criminality. This program activity, in close collaboration with partners in the provinces and territories, builds programs that are specific and appropriate to regions and communities. It provides communities with tools, knowledge and support to implement prevention programs at the local level.

Corrections

This program activity develops legislation and policies governing corrections, conditional release, and related criminal justice issues. It also develops and implements innovative approaches to community justice and provides research expertise and resources to both the corrections community and the public.

National Security

This program activity develops and coordinates policy to define and advance Canada's national security objectives. It seeks to enhance national security in a manner that respects and protects human rights. These efforts are pursued with key federal, domestic and international partners.

Interoperability

This program activity aims to implement a blueprint for addressing information-sharing and technical interface challenges, thus enhancing information-sharing among federal departments and agencies engaged in protecting public safety and security.

While safe-guarding the privacy rights of individuals, this program engages in maximizing information-sharing opportunities with others and minimizing security risks to Canadians.

Border Management

This program activity provides federal policy leadership and coordination on a variety of border issues such as customs/ immigration enforcement and cross-border law enforcement, so as to ensure that security objectives are achieved in a manner that facilitates the flow of legitimate trade and travel. It also contributes to the effective management of the Canada-United States border agenda.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

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Transfer Payments

Canada Border Services Agency

Strategic Outcome

Legitimate people and goods move freely and lawfully across the border.

Program Activity Descriptions

Conventional Border Program

The Conventional Border Program develops, administers and overseas the policies, regulations, procedures, alliances and working partnerships necessary to maintain border control while allowing for the free movement of legitimate people and goods (including plants and animals) into and out of Canada. This program ensures that the entry of low-risk people and goods is expedited while unknown and high-risk people and goods are properly assessed. The Conventional Border Program benefits the Canadian economy by contributing to strong business and tourism sectors. The program promotes compliance with border legislation and minimizes unnecessary delays at the border. The program also contributes to creating a stronger and more prosperous North America by allowing goods and people to move freely across the border.

Trade Program

The Trade Program ensures that the Canadian economy and the business community gain maximum benefits from the administration of international and regional trade agreements and domestic legislation governing trade in commercial goods.

In this context, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is responsible for developing and administering rules, policies, programs and activities that govern the trade-related aspects (origin, valuation, anti-dumping and countervailing measures, tariff and trade incentives) of the movement of goods into Canada. Guided by these rules, policies and programs, importers must account for imported goods and indicate what the imported goods are (tariff), where they come from (origin), how much they are worth (valuation), what duties and taxes are payable, if and how much anti-dumping and countervailing duties are payable, and whether duties can be relieved, remitted or deferred (tariff and trade incentives). Based on risk, the CBSA ensures importer compliance with trade requirements by conducting verification activities to ensure the proper collection of duties and taxes as set by Parliament, by upholding the integrity of trade agreements, by providing protection to Canadian industries and by ensuring the integrity of trade data.

Facilitated Border Program

The Facilitated Border Program develops, administers and oversees program requirements, policies, regulations and standards necessary to expedite the international border passage of pre-approved, low-risk people, importers, carriers and goods. In providing a faster and more efficient means of crossing the border in land, air and marine modes, the Facilitated Border Program reduces border congestion and wait times while managing risk. It contributes to the strengthening of the Canadian economy through the business and tourism sectors. Periodic examinations of people and goods are conducted to ensure ongoing compliance.

Recourse Program

The Recourse Program provides the business community and individuals with an accessible redress process that ensures a fair and impartial review of decisions and actions taken in support of border services legislation. Through the fair, transparent and timely review of Trade Program decisions and enforcement-related actions, the Recourse Program ensures that the actions taken by CBSA officials accurately reflect CBSA policies, guidelines and legislation and contribute to the security, protection and economic prosperity of Canada. In addition, the Recourse Program manages any further appeals of recourse decisions to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the courts. This program is also responsible for the management of Canadian Human Rights Commission cases involving allegations of discrimination from the public regarding the services provided by the CBSA.

Strategic Outcome

Canada's population is safe and secure from border-related risks.

Program Activity Descriptions

Enforcement Program

The Enforcement Program ensures the safety and security of Canada's population. Working closely with the Risk Assessment Program, the Enforcement Program ensures that appropriate enforcement actions are taken against people and goods that are non-compliant with border-related legislation and regulations. At ports of entry, these actions include the identification, detention and reporting of permanent residents or foreign nationals who are inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act . Border services officers at ports of entry also detain, seize and impose administrative monetary penalties on goods that are non-compliant with the Customs Act or other Canadian legislation and regulations. At inland enforcement offices, CBSA officials identify, investigate and report those suspected of being inadmissible to Canada, and locate and remove those inadmissible persons who do not have a legal right to remain in Canada. This activity is essential to the integrity of Canada's immigration and refugee programs. In addition, CBSA officials at HQ and in the regions carry out criminal investigations of offences against border-related legislation.

Risk Assessment Program

The Risk Assessment Program "pushes the border out" by seeking to identify high-risk people and goods as early as possible before their arrival at Canada's border. The program is an essential element in preserving the safety and security of Canada's population. The program assesses information from a wide range of sources to support decisions on visa applicants at overseas missions. CBSA officials also assist local authorities in identifying document fraud, screening irregular migrants and cargo at ports of embarkation and, where possible, preventing their departure. At the National Risk Assessment Centre and in regional targeting units, the CBSA uses advance passenger and cargo information from carriers, importers, exporters and other partners to identify high-risk people and goods before their arrival. Once identified, high-risk people or goods are flagged for closer examination and possible enforcement action at a Canadian port of entry. In this manner, the Risk Assessment Program and the Enforcement Program work closely together to preserve the security of Canada's border.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

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Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Strategic Outcome

Actionable intelligence on threats arising from terrorism, espionage and foreign interference is used to protect Canadian national security interests.

Program Activity Descriptions

Intelligence Program

This program includes the collection, processing and analysis of information and intelligence, respecting activities that may be suspected of constituting threats to the security of Canada and safety of Canadians and, in relation thereto, reporting and advising the Government of Canada. In accordance with Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act , s.16, in supporting the missions of National Defence and Foreign Affairs, this intelligence program also provides assistance to the Minister of National Defence and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, within Canada, in the collection of information or intelligence.

Security Screening Program

The Security Screening program is one of the main responsibilities of CSIS and among its most visible functions. The goals of the Security Screening program are to prevent non-Canadians who pose security concerns or risks from entering or receiving permanent residence in Canada and to prevent anyone of concern from gaining access to sensitive government assets, locations or information. Through its foreign offices in Canadian missions abroad, CSIS performs in-depth examinations of applicants and prospective immigrants whose backgrounds present security concerns. CSIS also provides security assessments on behalf of all federal government departments and agencies (except the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)) as part of the Government Security Policy (GSP). Security Assessments fall into the following program activities: Government Screening, Sensitive Sites Screening, Foreign Screening, Immigration and Citizenship Screening, and Refugee Screening.

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Correctional Service

Strategic Outcome

The custody, correctional interventions, and supervision of offenders, in communities and institutions, contributes to public safety.

Program Activity Descriptions

Custody

This program activity ensures that offenders are provided with reasonable, safe, secure and human custody while serving their sentence. This program activity provides much of the day-to-day needs for offenders in custody including a wide range of activities that address health and safety issues as well as provide basics such as food, clothing, mental health services, and physical health care. It also includes security measures within institutions including drug interdiction, and appropriate control practices to prevent incidents.

Correctional Interventions

The Correctional Interventions program activity, which occurs in both institutions and communities, are necessary to help bring positive changes in behavior and to successfully reintegrate offenders. This program activity aims to address problems that are directly related to offenders' criminal behavior and that interfere with their ability to function as law-abiding members of society.

Community Supervision

The Community Supervision program activity ensures eligible offenders are safely reintegrated into communities through the provision of housing and health services, where required, as well as staff supervision for the duration of the offenders sentence. The expected results for this program activity are offenders who are reintegrated into the community as law-abiding citizens while maintaining a level of supervision, which contributes to public safety.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

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Transfer Payments

National Parole Board

Strategic Outcome

Conditional release and pardon decisions and decision processes that safeguard Canadian communities.

Program Activity Descriptions

Conditional Release Decisions

This program activity aims to ensure public safety by providing quality decisions on the timing and conditions of release of offenders into the community. Through this program activity, National Parol Board (NPB) provides timely, accurate information for Board member decision-making and develops effective training and policies that are essential tools for the quality risk assessment and decision-making. Effectiveness is assessed through the monitoring of the outcomes for offenders released on parole.

Conditional Release Openness and Accountability

This program activity is designed to ensure that NPB operates in an open and accountable manner, consistent with the provisions of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act . Therefore this program activity consists of the provision of information for victims of crime; assistance for observers at hearings and those who seek access to the National Parole Board's decision registry; dissemination of public information; encouragement of citizen engagement; investigation of tragic incidents in the community; as well as performance monitoring and reporting on conditional release decision processes.

Results for this program activity are assessed by monitoring the timeliness of information shared and selected surveys of those who receive information and assistance from the National Parole Board.

Pardon Decisions/Clemency Recommendations

This program activity is designed to support rehabilitation and community reintegration by providing quality pardon decisions and clemency recommendations. In support of quality decisions and recommendations, NPB screens applications for eligibility and completeness, collects appropriate information for decision-making and develops policy to guide decision processes. The results of this program are assessed through ongoing review of the average time required to process pardon applications, and the rates of revocation of pardons granted.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

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Office of the Correctional Investigator

Strategic Outcome

The problems of offenders in the federal correctional system are identified and addressed in a timely and reasonable fashion.

Program Activity Descriptions

Ombudsman for federal offenders

Through this program activity, the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) conducts investigations of individual offender complaints regarding acts, omissions, decisions and recommendations of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). It also has a responsibility to review and make recommendations on CSC's policies and procedures associated with the areas of individual complaints, to ensure that systemic areas of complaint are identified and appropriately addressed, and to review all Section 19 investigations performed by CSC following the death of or serious injury to an inmate.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Strategic Outcome

Quality federal policing.

Program Activity Descriptions

Federal and International Operations

Provides policing, law enforcement, investigative and protective services to the federal government, its departments and agencies and to Canadians.

Protective Policing Services

Directs the planning, implementation, administration and monitoring of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) National Protective Security Program including the protection of dignitaries, the security of major events and of Special Initiatives including Prime Minister-led summits of an international nature.

Strategic Outcome

Quality contract policing.

Program Activity Descriptions

Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing

Contributes to safe homes and safe communities by providing police services to diverse communities in eight provinces (with the exception of Ontario and Quebec) and three territories through cost-shared policing service agreements with federal, provincial, territorial, municipal and aboriginal governments.

Strategic Outcome

Quality policing support services.

Program Activity Descriptions

Technical Policing Operations

Provides policy, advice and management to predict, research, develop and ensure the availability of technical tools and expertise to enable front line members and partners to prevent and investigate crime and enforce the law, protect against terrorism, and operate in a safe and secure environment.

National Police Services

Contributes to safe homes and safe communities for Canadians through the acquisition, analysis, dissemination and warehousing of law enforcement-specific applications of science and technology to all accredited Canadian law enforcement agencies.

Policing Support Services

Support services provided in support of the RCMP's role as a police organization.

Criminal Intelligence Operations

A national program for the management of criminal information and intelligence in the detection and prevention of crime of an organized, serious or national security nature in Canada, or internationally as it affects Canada.

Strategic Outcome

Payments applicable to all activities.

Program Activity Descriptions

To compensate members of the RCMP for injuries received in the performance of duty

To compensate members of the RCMP for injuries received in the performance of duty.

Pensions under the RCMP Continuation Act

Pensions under the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Continuation Act. Survivor Income Plan Provides benefits to survivors of members who lost their lives while on duty or as a result of a duty related incident. The benefits are similar to those available to public servants at large under the provisions of the Government of Canada Employee Compensation Act to which the members of the RCMP are excluded.

Strategic Outcome

Quality Firearms Program and Support – The risks to public safety from firearms in Canada and international communities are minimized.

Program Activity Descriptions

Firearms Licensing and Supporting Infrastructure

Delivery of licensing activities through federal Chief Firearms Officers (CFO) operations, arrangements with other federal government departments, and the management of provincial CFO roles and relationships; operations of the Central Processing Site, the 1-800 call centre; maintenance and analysis of program performance data, management of the Program's information technology infrastructure and its interface with other databases; and support to public agencies and to law enforcement.

Firearm Registration

All activities related to the processing of all firearms registration and transfer applications, including registration on import; support to public agencies and to law enforcement.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

Transfer Payments

Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee

Strategic Outcome

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee aims to positively influence the manner in which labour relations issues are addressed within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Program Activity Descriptions

Independent and impartial case review

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police External Review Committee (ERC) can dispose of matters referred to the ERC by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) either on the basis of the material in the record or following a hearing. In conducting its review of matters referred to it, the ERC attempts to achieve timeliness and quality in its recommendations, and a balance amongst the many complex and different interests involved. It strives to ensure that the principles of administrative and labour law are respected and the remedial approach indicated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act is followed. In each case, the ERC must consider the public interest and ensure that members of the RCMP are treated in a fair and equitable manner.

Outreach and information dissemination

The ERC ensures that its findings and recommendations in each case are clearly explained for the parties and the RCMP Commissioner. Summaries of the findings and recommendations in each case, as well as articles of interest on the role of the ERC, relevant legal principles and information on related issues, are distributed widely. Communication and outreach tools include : a quarterly publication (Communiqué), including the most recent case summaries, updates, and legal principles; a website with timely inclusion of publications and case summaries; the annual report and other government accountability documents; and presentations, meetings, training and other outreach activities.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Public Complaints Commission

Strategic Outcome

RCMP members are held publicly accountable for their conduct in the performance of their duties.

Program Activity Descriptions

Civilian review of RCMP members' conduct in the performance of their duties

The Commission conducts reviews of complaints received from the public about the conduct of RCMP members in the performance of their duties. When complainants are not satisfied with the RCMP's handling of their complaints, they can request a review of their case by the Commission. In reviewing these complaints, the Commission may conduct hearings and investigations, and reports on its findings and makes recommendations to the RCMP Commissioner and Minister of Public Safety.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

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